HOUSTON, April 27 (UPI) -- A cook from the Maersk Alabama, the U.S.-flagged cargo ship boarded by pirates this month, is suing the ship's owners for at least $75,000, his attorney says.
UNDERHILL, Vt., April 17 (UPI) -- Maersk Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips said Friday the U.S. military was the real hero in his rescue from Somali pirates who held him captive for four days.
MOMBASA, Kenya, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. cargo ship Capt. Richard Phillips, held hostage by pirates off the Somali coast for four days, was on his way back to the United States Friday from Africa.
WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- The captain of the U.S.-flagged cargo ship Somali pirates tried to hijack last week will return home Friday, the shipping line's leader said Thursday.
MOMBASA, Kenya, April 14 (UPI) -- Capt. Richard Phillips, who spent five days as a pirate hostage, will return to the United States on a chartered plane with his crew, the shipper said Tuesday.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 9 (UPI) -- FBI negotiators are working with the U.S. Navy to negotiate the freedom of a U.S. captain held by Somali pirates, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 8 (UPI) -- Somali pirates who boarded a U.S.-flagged cargo ship and were overpowered by its crew Wednesday reportedly took the ship's captain hostage, officials said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- One day after the merger of two Scandinavian airlines, the new entity launched a fare war against SAS AB, the region's dominant carrier.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 29 (UPI) -- Denmark's AP Moeller-Maersk has paid $687 million for a 25 percent stake in the Netherlands's Royal P&O Nedlloyd container shipping line.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 16 (UPI) -- Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk has convinced Dutch container line P&O Nedlloyd to accept a sweetened takeover bid of about $3.3 billion.
